How To Lose A Good Sea

Botty title.

I think I am slowly being taken over by a "research project" I abandoned years ago. I abandoned it because it's not really going to accomplish anything, no matter how interesting it might be. And turning it into fiction is Not a Good Idea. No matter how interesting it might be.

I have a novel I am working on anyway.

So there.

And speaking of which, on reading back through last year's posts, it might be more interesting to anyone reading them, if I go a bit more detail.

So, this novel is about a guy who returns home to continue training as a mage, except he isn't able to and instead finds himself holed up in a room with a couple of story stealing characters, reading banned books, while his daughter runs around the palace getting into trouble showing how well she can look after herself.

In today's installment, he has just discovered he was sent away for political reasons, rather than for his own good. This, to put it mildly, is a bit of a blow to his world view.

That was not in the first draft. No where, not even a hint of it. ... OK I did want this scene to have a point but that? Who is actually writing this?

Page 123 Meme

The rules:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Not sure how to count sentences. If I use words with a capital at one end and a full stop at the other, it is:

See Draw

If I ignore headings, I get (I wish):

A signed cheque, leaving the amount to be filed in by the payee.

Ignoring, headings, labels, directional stuff, gives:

Rhymeless verse in continuous decasyllables with Iambic or trochaic rhythm, first used in English by the Earl of Surrey about 1540 in his version of Books II and IV of the Aenid.

Not something that should be typed before breakfast :\